Rick Shaw Movies
- 2003
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Singer and musician Joe Jackson celebrates his 25th year as a professional performer with this concert film in which the man performs more than a dozen songs. Included during the show are performances of "Is She Really Going Out With Him?," "Just Because," "Another World," "Happyland," and "Hell of a Town." The DVD release of the concert includes interviews and an excerpt from Jackson's book A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1992
A couple of wealthy young California sisters decide to hit a few birds with one stone when they, with the help of some homeless folks, hold a talent show/bikini contest. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
Mimi Lesseos plays a female wrestler in this martial arts actioner. After winning the women's world wrestling title she goes home to celebrate with her family. There she sees her brother tooting cocaine. Later, Lesseos learns that a dancer-friend has broken her leg and so offers to fill in for her in her Las Vegas revue. While Lesseos performs, her brother is kick-boxed to death by the evil Harry Lee, a Chinese drug lord. To avenge his death, Lesseos must challenge Lee's female body guard to a deadly serious kickboxing match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
Produced during the final days of apartheid in South Africa, this drama explores the tangled relations occasioned by this forced complete separation of the races. The story focuses on the eperiences of Paul Gillett (Robert Coleman), a policeman charged with enforcing these draconian laws, who eventually comes to see them are wrong. He evolves from having been a dutiful upholder of the laws oppressing blacks to being a secret rebel. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Whitehead, Megan Kruskal, (more)
- 1982
The Jeffersons and the Willises plan a surprise party for the Jeffersons' housekeeper, Florence (Marla Gibbs). But thanks to a misunderstanding, Florence thinks that the two couples are throwing a wing-ding to which she hasn't been invited -- and, even worse, at which she will be expected to act as a mere servant. Deeply hurt, Florence grabs a 500-dollar bottle of George's wine and gets good and plastered. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, (more)
